HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · Virginia

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc.

Bristol, VA · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 88% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. safety composite

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. held a steady TCR band

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 2.5 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Bristol, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #71/152
  • PHOTO AES Building Service…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AES Building Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (88% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 152 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Virginia.

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. (78 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc.
Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. (78 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Comfort Systems USA (Bristol), Inc. has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · VA · Bristol

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 54 employers in Bristol, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR AES Building Services, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Mechanical Systems, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daart Engineering Co Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1st FP Services, LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE TIS - VA - Emporia 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Electric Company 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolley ELectrical Corp 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ostrom Electrical Contracting Inc 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2089 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2089 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR VABRI - BRISTOL 332 FTE
NAT-TCR La Causa, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0500 - Englewood, Co 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0177 - Gaithersburg, Md 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Willard LLC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIK Chicago 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KP - Frazer CSC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Services Supply Chain Operations : Las Vegas, NV 78 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.